Umm Ummah

Umm Ummah was a female member of the al-Nusra Front who formed a brigade of Syrian women to fight for al-Qaeda during the Syrian Civil War.

Biography
Umm Ummah was an English teacher in southern Aleppo when the Syrian Civil War broke out, and she decided to join the al-Nusra Front affiliate of al-Qaeda to fight against Bashar al-Assad's government. Umm Ummah was not just a teacher at an al-Nusra school, but she also formed her own brigade of female fighters to fight alongside their "jihadist brothers" against the Syrian Arab Army in southern Aleppo. In a VICE News documentary about the al-Nusra Front, she stated that she killed an Iranian soldier with a sniper rifle on one occasion, having identified him as a non-Syrian and believed that he was armed.